The .1 are the friends the kids always bring over to eat all our food and make a mess of the place.
The .1 used to be our dog Murray, who sadly passed away last year. The explaining of that to then 4 year old twins is a whole other thread in itself.

Rumour has it that the Liberals have some disparaging and potentially very harmful information up their sleeve about Kevin Rudd.

I'd just like to know why the Wheat Board Scandal counts for nothing...and how would Howard and co know whether they have disparaging info or otherwise on Rudd when not so long ago they struggled to remember their own names!?

I'm constantly in wonder at how stupid they think we are at election time, and conversely...how stupid we turn out to be.

Given, Howard's had next to no competition at the polling booth since he came into power.

Heard on the radio that Newspoll is back a week owing to school holidays. Dunno if that's right or not.

Editor of The Australian:

It’s out next week. There is no conspiracy. We are trying to settle on a fortnightly cycle that doesn’t involve us coming out a day after Galaxy, as we would have had we come out this morning, or a day after Nielson. You may be aware we do not poll Thursday nights because of late night shopping. Neilson and Galaxy do, which we believe adversely affects their results. But it allows them to publish Monday while we publish Tuesday. Since we spend over $1 million a year on political polling I try to move it around so we don’t get scooped by Neilson or Galaxy. This has only become a problem recently because Fairfax is polling more regularly and the tabloids are polling monthly with Galaxy